Ickapoo is superior as an Alien. But his privilege must translate into care for the less privileged, who must in turn submit to his Authority rather than subvert, negate his Authority/
The Handmaid's tale is Atwood's speculative fiction about what would happen if religious fundamentalists who are out to reverse the progresses made by the feminist movement were to take over America and replace the capitalist government with a theocracy of Christian fundamentalist state.
In Atwood's dystopia, the trend of viewing women solely in terms of their functions in society is taken to its extreme conclusion in the setting up of women in roles such as handmaids, Aunts, Wives, Marthas, Econowives and so on. Women in an extreme patriarchal society are reduced to mere functions such as Offred's status
